Incarcerated fathers and daughters reunite at Angola Prison in Louisiana for a dance that bridges years of separation — ...

Federal judge Brian A. Jackson certified the prison labor case as a class action in late December. A lawsuit alleges the ...

Gov. Jeff Landry has declared a state emergency to address what he said is lack of capacity to house violent offenders at Louisiana State Penitentiary. His proclamation allows state officials to ...

ST. FRANCISVILLE, La. (BRPROUD) – The fall Angola Prison Rodeo is back and taking place each Sunday in October. The rodeo events are scheduled for Oct. 6, 13, 20 and 27. The Louisiana State ...

ANGOLA, La. (BRPROUD) — Every Sunday in October, people can attend the Angola Prison Rodeo, also known as “The Wildest Show in the South.” The event has food, shopping and a lot of fun. But what makes ...

(Bloomberg) -- On a sweep of farmland hemmed in by the Mississippi River, where guards on horseback once watched over inmates picking cotton, officials on Wednesday proclaimed a new mission for one of ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Tickets are now on sale for the upcoming 2025 spring Angola Prison rodeo. The rodeo is set to take place on Saturday, April 26, and Sunday, April 27, at the prison in West ...

MAGA world is yet again trying to market a prison where it will lock up people targeted by the president’s bigoted anti-immigrant crackdown. First, there was “Alligator Alcatraz,” the facility in the ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — The wildest show in the South returns at the Louisiana’s Angola Prison with spring shows set for April. Rodeo action starts at 2 p.m. on April 26 and 27, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ANGOLA, La. (BRPROUD) — Every Sunday in ...